This is so neat - this artist takes 1" pencils, sharpens them, and drills a hole through them to essentially make a bead. She then sews them together to make sculptures based on the prickly look of sea urchins. She says she uses mostly peyote stitch to connect them.
Wow! Very cool!
Kinda looks like Jakfruit. I never thought you could do that with pencils. It's sometimes amazing what people make beads out of. This reminds me of a Sooz post, saying that maybe it's one hole that goes through all those beads and connects all of us (paraphrased).
Sooz, where are ya?
Maren
The nails were pretty incredible, too. It rather inspired me, but if I bring any more materials into this house, I'm going to have to find some space for the people to live in. Really neat stuff that spoke right to me as well. Doubly neat to find out that she went to college right near me as well. I go by the Mass. College of Art at least once a week when I go to the doctor's.
My husband Bob,(for those who don't know us), relates his tale of woe every time he spots the school: He and another friend had to carry a 500 lb block of local granite that had been fashioned into a sculpture by his friend's girlfriend. 500 lbs of granite is a lot smaller than you would think, and they had very little to grab onto. Both of them were moaning, taking aspirin and using heat packs when they had delivered the sculpture to school. What they didn't realize was that they were going to be drafted into picking it up and taking it home when the girl had been graded on her final project. (It got an "A".)
I don't know who the woman drafted to move the sculpture to its' final destination: a spot among the irises in her garden. I'm sure it was her boyfriend; after nine years of dating, he eventually asked her to marry him. They now have a lovely crop of children a little younger than my Amanda. I know they didn't ask my Bob, because he'd get even more mileage out of his tale of woe.
Kathy N-V, drifting off into a story, as usual (I can't help it)
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